From: ?manu* <paolNOini@math.SPAMunifi.it>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:06:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z2p8m.2447$vm5.478@tornado.fastwebnet.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdlpdg9l.fsf@galatea.local>
Thank you so much. I have spent maybe one or two hours to understand
what was happening to my buffers. I tell you because it's a little bit
funny.
I open my buffer with UTF-8 encoding, and i see all the multibyte
characters scrambled. Then I insert the line -*- coding:utf-8 -*- at the
beginning and I save the buffer. Then I exit emacs and reopen the
buffer. Apparently nothing has changed.
What was happening was that after I write that line on the buffer, when
I save the buffer emacs converted the utf-8 escape characters in utf-8
(this seems a wrong behaviour to me!). Looking with hexdump I can see
that the original two bytes characters become four bytes.
The only solution I found was to use another editor to insert that
line!!! This is awkward!
E.
Pascal J. Bourguignon ha scritto:
> ?manu* <paolNOini@math.SPAMunifi.it> writes:
>
>> . what method does emacs use to guess the encoding of a text file?
>>
>> . what is the command to tell emacs that the file in the buffer is
>> utf-8 instead of latin-1?
>
> M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system
> (Usually bound to C-x RET f)
>
>
>> . is it possible to insert some text in the file (in comments)
>> to tell emacs which encoding to use?
>
> Insert the coding File Variable:
>
> Put: -*- coding:utf-8; -*-
> on one of the first two lines,
>
> or put:
>
> Local Variables:
> coding: utf-8
> End:
>
> in the last 512 bytes of the file.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 17:44 switch between utf-8 and latin-1 ?manu*
2009-07-18 17:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-18 19:06 ` ?manu* [this message]
2009-07-18 19:39 ` switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!) Anselm Helbig
2009-07-18 21:57 ` ?manu*
2009-07-18 23:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-19 6:32 ` ?manu*
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